Top 500 Hunter S. Thompson Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

252. “There may be flies on you and me, but there are no flies on Jesus.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

253. “Flying United, to me, is like crossing the Andes in a prison bus. There is no question in my mind that somebody like Pat Nixon personally approves every United stewardess. Nowhere in the Western world is there anything to equal the collection of self-righteous shrews who staff the “friendly skies of United.” I do everything possible to avoid that airline, often at considerable cost and personal inconvenience.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

254. “You took too much man, too much, too much.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

255. “North Vegas is where you go if you’re a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you’re no longer much good for business out there with the high rollers.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

256. “I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

257. “I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.”

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258. “Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan – and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

259. “They’re gonna make it look like suicide. I know how those bastards think.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

260. “Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

261. “February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

262. “I never claimed to be anything more than a nice guy and an athlete.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

263. “A little bit of this town goes a very long way.”

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264. “To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men’s emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.”

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265. “The wide receiver had a real taste for crime, and he indulged it with an erratic kind of vigor that made him an albatross for Madden and a natural soulmate for my old friend, Al Davis, who remains the ultimate Raider. They were serious people, and John Madden was definitely one of them, for good or ill. Living with the Oakland Raiders in those days was not much different than living with the Hell’s Angels. I.”

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266. “The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

267. “Life should not be a journey to the grave...”

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268. “Stay naked as much as possible, but do not impose your orgiastic will on others. Don’t have sex in the lobby – it’s usually awkward.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

269. “Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.”

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270. “As your attorney I advise you to get the chiliburger. It’s a hamburger with chili on it.”

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271. “The mind and body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs and music.”

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272. “If Sunday is the Lord’s day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

273. “There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I’d finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn’t feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

274. “The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

275. “I couldn’t imagine, and I don’t say this with any pride, but I really couldn’t imagine writing without a desperate deadline.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

276. “If you can’t make yourself understood by your friends, you’ll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.”

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277. “The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits.”

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278. “NOT EVERYBODY is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. They are addicts, and they are guilty and they do lie and cheat and steal – like all junkies. And when they get in a frenzy, they will sacrifice anything and anybody to feed their cruel and stupid habit, and there is no cure for it.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

279. “Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

280. “It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.”

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281. “Crack is ruining the drug culture.”

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282. “All we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.”

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283. “I’m not trying to send you out “on the road” in search of Valhalla, but merely pointing out that it is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it. There is more to it than that – no one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

284. “I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics.”

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285. “The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.”

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286. “Wake up and ponder the future.”

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287. “As for LSD, I highly recommend it. We had a fine, wild weekend and no trouble at all. The feeling it produces is hard to describe. ‘Intensity’ is a fair word for it. Try half a cube at first, just sit in the living room and turn on the music – after the kids have gone to bed. But never take it in uncomfortable or socially tense situations. And don’t have anybody around whom you don’t like.”

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288. “Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

289. “I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.”

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290. “I was so far beyond simple fatigue that I was beginning to feel nicely adjusted to the idea of permanent hysteria.”

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291. “It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs that state the obvious, and leaps into a trip no drug known to man could ever encompass.”

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292. “At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks.”

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293. “There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the standards and taste of his choices in matters of high-level plagiarism.”

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294. “A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and Holy Ghost on drums.”

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295. “Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.”

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296. “I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.”

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297. “As your attorney, I advise you to tell me where you put the goddamn mescaline.”

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298. “Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.”

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299. “That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn’t entirely conquer – he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.”

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300. “Anybody who thinks that ‘it doesn’t matter who’s President’ has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world.”

— Hunter S. Thompson